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Menahan Street Band

Menahan Street Band is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Mighty Imperials, Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and The Budos Band. Those roots explain a lot about how Menahan Street Band arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ikebe Shakedown, The Budos Band, The Olympians, Charles Bradley and El Michels Affair, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ludacris, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, Eminem, Cults and Theophilus London, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Menahan Street Band, reaching back through The Mighty Imperials and forward to Ludacris. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Menahan Street Band is an American, Brooklyn, New York–based instrumental band formed in 2007, that plays funk and soul music. The band features musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and the Budos Band. The group was founded by Thomas Brenneck while living in an apartment on Menahan Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking, was released in 2008 on Dunham, a sublabel of Daptone Records and was followed by The Crossing in 2012.

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Menahan Street BandThe Mighty ImperialsAntibalasEl Michels AffairSharon Jones and the…The Budos BandLudacrisMan on the Moon: The…EminemCultsTheophilus LondonUsherJAY-ZKid CudiIkebe ShakedownThe Budos BandThe OlympiansCharles BradleyEl Michels AffairThe Poets of RhythmDelvon Lamarr Organ …Monophonics

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Menahan Street Band connections

Menahan Street Band grew out of The Mighty Imperials, Antibalas, El Michels Affair and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, shares an orbit with Ikebe Shakedown, The Budos Band, The Olympians and Charles Bradley, went on to shape Ludacris, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, Eminem and Cults. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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